The Criminal Lifestyle

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Glenn D. Walters - Kutztown University, USA

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Criminology & Criminal Justice | Social Problems

224 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

What kind of choices does a hardened criminal make? What belief systems are these choices based on? The Criminal Lifestyle approaches these questions by examining how various biological, sociological and psychological factors interact to bring about criminal behaviour. Walters develops a model of crime as a lifestyle and shows that this concept is historically, cross-nationally and empirically valid. This groundbreaking book will be of interest to psychologists and sociologists as well as criminologists.

A Working Hypothesis

Criminological Theory

Crime as a Lifestyle

The Criminal Lifestyle

Postulates and Key Terms

The Criminal Lifestyle

Developmental Issues

The Criminal Lifestyle

Cognitive Patterns

The Criminal Lifestyle

Assessment and Change

The Working Hypothesis Revisited

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Glenn D. Walters

Glenn D. Walters received his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University in 1982 with a concentration in Counseling Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience. He is employed full-time as a psychologist in a correctional setting while also teaching courses, both graduate and undergraduate, as an Adjunct Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill, and Lehigh University. In addition to forensic psychology, he teaches abnormal psychology, psychological assessment, and developmental psychology. He has written two other books with SAGE: Drugs & Crime in Lifestyle Perspective (1994) and The Criminal Lifestyle: Patterns of Serious Criminal... More About Author

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